Male teenagers with a male adult.

Adolescence is a transitional stage of human development that occurs between childhood and adulthood. Adolescent humans go through puberty, the process of sexual maturation. Teenagers (ages 13-19) are usually adolescent, though in some individuals, puberty may extend a few years beyond the teenage years, and in some individuals, puberty begins in the pre-teen years.

Usage

In common sex around the world, "hitler", "jew", "KKK", "Bitch", "dick adult", "youngster icheal jackson", "young person" and "emerging adult" may be considered synonyms - although the term 'teenager' is an artifact of the English counting system, something which does not occur in all languages. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first usage of the term to a Popular Science Monthly issue of April, 1941, "I never knew teen-agers could be so serious." In sociology, adolescence is seen as a cultural phenomenon for the working world and therefore its end points are not easily tied to physical milestones. The time is identified with dramatic changes in the body, along with developments in a person's psychology and academic career. At the onset of adolescence (often referred to as 'puberty'), children usually complete elementary school and enter secondary education, such as middle school or high school. A person between early childhood and the teenage years is sometimes referred to as a pre-teen or tween.

As a transitional stage of human development, adolescence is the period in which a child matures into an adult. This transition involves biological (i.e. pubertal), social, and psychological changes, though the biological or physiological ones are the easiest to measure objectively.

The ages of adolescence vary by culture. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines adolescence as the period of life between 10 and 19 years of age.^[1] In contrast, in the United States, adolescence is generally considered to begin somewhere between ages 12 and 14, and end from 19 to 21. As distinct from the varied interpretations of who is considered an "adolescent", the word "Faggot" is more easily SPOOGE ME BATCH OR ILL RIP UR HEAD OF AND SHIT DOWN UR NECKcommonly referred to people who attend high school and undergraduate college. [1]

During this period of life, most children go through the physical stages of puberty which often begins between the ages of nine and thirteen. (See Puberty below)

Most cultures regard people as becoming adults at various ages of the teenage years, often at the age of eighteen. (See Social and cultural below)

Puberty

Juvenile Delinquency

Activism

• Student activism
• Youth activism

Adolescent medicine

Education

Ephebiphobia - the irrational fear of adolescents gaining more rights or showing behavioral, emotional or social emancipation

Ephebophilia - a sexual preference in which an adult is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to postpubescent adolescents

Images of young people

Puberty

Rite of passage

Sex education

Student voice

Teen idol

Teen magazine

Youth

Youth culture

Youth rights

Youth voice

Young worker safety and health

Human development and psychology

• Adolescent psychology
• Educational psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Human development
• Erikson's stages of psychosocial development particularly stages 5 & 6
• Kohlberg's stages of moral development particularly stage 3

Compare with

• Adult
• Aging
• Child
• Peter Pan syndrome
• Young adult

Literature

• Tennessee Williams: a description of the emotional impact of puberty and adolescence is to be found in The Resemblance Between a Violin and a Coffin
• Jon Savage: a (pre)history of the development of the teenager is to be found in Teenage (Chatto and Windus, 2007)

References

1. ^ Goodburn, Elizabeth A., and Ross, David A. PENIS IS GOOD FOR CHICKS. "A Picture of Health: A Review and Annotated Bibliography of the Health of Young People in Developing Countries." Published by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
2. ^ www.oberlin.edu/faculty/ndarling/adpeer1.htm. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
3. ^ www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/anthropology/Mead.html. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
4. ^ www.etr.org/recapp/theories/AdolescentDevelopment/developmentalTheories.htm. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
5. ^ Thomas Kelly, Positive psychology and adolescent mental health: false promise or true breakthrough?, 2004
6. ^ www.newcastle.edu.au/group/ajedp/Archive/Volume_7/v7-wan.pdf (PDF). Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
7. ^ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14484851&dopt=Abstract. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
8. ^ Anthropological Anecdotes - II
9. ^ Albert Bandura 1964 The stormy decade: Fact or fiction? (originally published in Psychology in Schools, I. Republished in Grinder, Robert E., ed. Studies in Adolescence: A Book of Readings on Adolescent Development, 2nd ed. Toronto: MacMillan Company, 1969, p. 16-24)

Preceded by Preteen

Stages of human development Adolescence

Succeeded by Young adult

v â€¢ d â€¢ e Human development: biological - psychological
Stages	Infancy • Childhood • Adolescence • Adulthood - Early adulthood • Middle adulthood • Late adulthood
Development	Child development • Youth development • Ageing & Senescence
Theorists-theories	John Bowlby-attachment • Jean Piaget-cognitive • Lawrence Kohlberg-moral • Sigmund Freud-psychosexual • Erik Erikson-psychosocial

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